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  1. Transfusion
    blood and sympathy in the nineteenth-century literary imagination
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials.... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    "Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's role in now-canonical works such as H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels." --

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780813943138; 9780813943725
    RVK Categories: HL 1101 ; HL 4519 ; HM 4755
    Subjects: Literatur; Bluttransfusion; Englisch; Sympathie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Stoker, Bram (1847-1912): Dracula; Wells, H. G. (1866-1946): The island of Doctor Moreau; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Blood transfusion in literature; Blood / Symbolic aspects; Blood / Symbolic aspects; English literature; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xii, 279 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Introduction: Vital transactions -- Transfusing souls -- "Interesting experiments" and "curious operations": transfusion as medical news -- The transfused transformed: fictions of transfusion in the periodical press -- "Miraculously re-embodied": William Delisle Hay's Blood: a tragic tale -- Surgical vampirism: the afterlife of bloodletting -- Delivering Lucy: vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Coda: the call to arms

  2. Transfusion
    blood and sympathy in the nineteenth-century literary imagination
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials.... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's role in now-canonical works such as H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels." --

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780813943138; 9780813943725
    RVK Categories: HL 1101 ; HL 4519 ; HM 4755
    Subjects: Literatur; Bluttransfusion; Englisch; Sympathie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Stoker, Bram (1847-1912): Dracula; Wells, H. G. (1866-1946): The island of Doctor Moreau; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Blood transfusion in literature; Blood / Symbolic aspects; Blood / Symbolic aspects; English literature; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xii, 279 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Introduction: Vital transactions -- Transfusing souls -- "Interesting experiments" and "curious operations": transfusion as medical news -- The transfused transformed: fictions of transfusion in the periodical press -- "Miraculously re-embodied": William Delisle Hay's Blood: a tragic tale -- Surgical vampirism: the afterlife of bloodletting -- Delivering Lucy: vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Coda: the call to arms